Liked this view on the new bits in Vista from the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6160327.stm
Check out this section: 
and of course this bit:
but I really like this: 
Have to say the files and folders search is sooooo nice – makes you feel like storing files wherever you like just for the hell of it!
Enjoy!
Here’s a link to the Oil & Gas Fluent site with some of the other great partners who were there:
http://www.fluent.com/worldwide/europe/events/iocc_06/index.htm
The following are well worth checking out:
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Enjoy!
So you know some days start better than others – well today it started by Dr. Michael Newberry and I carrying a 64 node cluster from Tyan (thanks to Mark Burnett of Tyan who kindly leant us the cluster) onto the HQS Wekkington on the Thames - we nearly launched the cluster into the Thames when we realised that we had shaved the bannister on the gang plank (metal against metal with the 120Kg+ machine!!
Why I hear you ask?? – we were at the Fluent and Ansys user conference which was focussing on the Oil and Gas industries – some nice stuff in fluid dynamics rather like the yacht video I shared last week (Great video on HPC Fluid Dynamics used in Yacht Design...cool stuff from the French!)
Find out more about Fluent here: http://www.fluent.co.uk/
Enjoy!
With all the popular bashing of the Zune going on at the moment you have to ask yourself a couple of things:
1. Have you test driven the product?
2. Have you seen the actual numbers for the first week of launch?
Nice article from CNN on the launch and the real stats:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/29/technology/personaltech/zune/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
So what does this remind me of, well you dont have to go back that far to uncover similar tales:
1. Launch of the first ever Smartphone from Orange in the UK - received dismal initial reception now look at the range on offer at our friends at www.expansys.com
2. Launch of the XBOX - now check out the critical acclaim we receive for the XBOX 360 and the awards we received for the original XBOX
Hmmm feels like we are in familiar territory again....look forward to the next few years and lets see what happens!
Game on!
So a few of my close friends will know that I am quite keen on sailing – with the huge momentum behind Vista at the moment imagine how pleased I was to see this Vista Gadget come out specifically for sailors:
You can change the location to any one of around a 100 locations and gives a great indicator of the sea state!
Download yours here:
http://gallery.microsoft.com/liveitemdetail.aspx?li=bf408579-ec37-4bec-b3ef-0a36ceb972a8&l=1
And loads more gadgets at: http://gallery.microsoft.com/
Enjoy!
